It was an action-packed, fun-filled day for Canadian International School (CIS) family and friends at the school’s annual STEAM fair on 3 February. STEAM, which is an an interdisciplinary teaching approach that stands for Science, Technology, Entrepreneurship (or engineering at some schools), Arts and Maths, plays a fundamental part of CIS’ curriculum and is integrated across their entire school. Their programme focuses on equipping each student with a set of crucial skills (collaboration, research, problem solving, critical thinking and creativity) essential for them to succeed in the 21st century, regardless of where their interests or passions lie.
Activity highlights
Throughout the day there were lots of great hands-on STEAM activities for children and their parents to experiment and try out. The younger children loved creating colourful ice sculptures and building a giant spider web city in the school’s magical Outdoor Discovery Centre, while the older kids were captivated building snap circuits, creating stunning spirographs and learning code using a sphero.
Another big favourite (especially amongst the children!), were the many fun carnival rides including the downpour derby, F1 car racing and bungee jumping. For parents, the global bazaar was was a popular destination and also the massage booth where they got to enjoy a relaxing massage by members of the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped.
More about STEAM at CIS
If you would like to find out more about CIS’ STEAM programme feel free to sign up for their next Open House on 22 February. Alternatively, you can visit www.cis.edu.sg/steam
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